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Palmer Luckey claims SVB collapse would have wiped out half of tech
“If SVB would not have been bailed out by the government in, in, in, You know, like, it wasn't just, like, the government's obligations. They were bailing out well beyond FDIC limits. If they wouldn't have done that, it probably would have wiped out half the te…”
Coogan: Byrne Hobart broke the Silicon Valley Bank balance sheet story early
“And our buddy who we mentioned before, Bryn Hobart, was the one who, like, deep dove SVB early and broke the story, essentially. That, like, their balance sheet was messed up.”
Hays: Leveraged blowups happen instantly compared to venture startup wind-downs
“The key takeaway is like when leverage is involved, things just move so, so, so fast... Quite a bit different than traditional venture world, where when a company is dying, it dies over two, three years often, sometimes more.”